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The fiscal side of Europe’s energy crisis: the facts, problems and prospects
Europe needs to move beyond emergency fiscal responses and focus on structural changes to allow the EU to accelerate its decoupling from fossil fuels.
Is Europe failing on import diversification?
Despite a goal of economic self-reliance, the European Union’s imports are generally sourced from an increasingly limited set of suppliers.
The difficulty of designating gatekeepers under the EU Digital Markets Act
The European Commission should be more precise and transparent when designating gatekeepers under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act.
Europe’s half a million barrels per day diesel supply question
A new European Union embargo on Russian oil products should not affect EU diesel supplies and prices, but could encourage re-routing by Russia.
Web3: the next internet revolution
Tokenisation based on blockchain technology could bring radical changes to markets for goods and services.
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25 March 2014
Blogs review: Does economic growth have a future in the United States?
What’s at stake: In an effort to rebut the criticisms that his controversial 2012 paper “Is U.S. economic growth over?” drew and the recent affir
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25 March 2014
Gas imports: Ukraine's expensive addiction
Existing contracts oblige Ukraine to pay for massive amounts of Russian gas even if it does not use them, Gazprom does side-deals on cheap gas wi
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24 March 2014
The European Parliament improves banking union
After a round of negotiation which lasted a full 16 hours, the Parliament and the Council reached a provisional agreement on the proposed Single Resol
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22 March 2014
Internationalisation and innovation of firms
The analysis suggests that policymakers should coordinate, if not integrate, innovation and internationalisation policies in order to boost productivi
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19 March 2014
China and the renminbi matures
In economic terms, China is becoming more of an adult, and the renminbi is becoming a grown-up currency. Russia's actions in Ukraine have prompte
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19 March 2014
A year since Cyprus
It is still too early to conclude that the Cyprus programme will be successful, particularly in terms of enabling the country to regain market access
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19 March 2014
A needle in a haystack: key terms in official Troika documents
The term “poverty” is essentially absent from Commission documents, except for Greece, where conditionality became increasingly detailed with time and
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19 March 2014
Are capital markets the only friend of innovation?
Intangible assets are the key to growth in the knowledge economy, but innovative entrepreneurs can find it hard to secure the financing to kick-start
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19 March 2014
Blogs review: Wage growth, spare capacity and rate hikes
What’s at stake: With central banks more pessimistic about the degree of economic slack and increasingly doubtful about the effectiveness of furt
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19 March 2014
The World in 2020
For Europe, and within it, the EU and especially for those inside EMU, the need to change both their policy framework is particularly clear, not least
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12 March 2014
Investment and growth in the time of climate change
Climate policy, like all polices, is about making choices. Taking an economic perspective, the report addresses two major choices of European decarbon
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12 March 2014
What should Europe do about high energy prices?
Though Europe might have to live with higher energy prices than the US, it does not face a trade-off between remaining competitive and becoming sustai
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12 March 2014
Bruegel appoints new Board
In a General Assembly of the Brussels-based economics think tank Bruegel on February 24th, members approved a new Board. Jean-Claude Trichet was again
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07 March 2014
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses"
The impact of the demographic trend on Europe is particularly concerning. The reason is that Europe’s ‘native’ workforce is ageing and the numbe
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07 March 2014
Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future
The European Commission published yesterday the results of its in-depth reviews (IDRs) to assess the existence of macroeconomic imbalan
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04 March 2014
Competition Policy enforcement as a driver for growth
Joaquín Almunia, European Commissioner for Competition, shares with you some general views on competition policy.
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